Waleed Ghani

Waleed Salman Ghani (born 19 February 1983) is a British politician and former journalist and British Army officer who is current leader of the reconstituted Whig Party.^[3]

Education

Ghani was educated at the Manchester Grammar School and studied Philosophy and Theology at Trinity College, Oxford. At Oxford he was Editor of the Cherwell, the undergraduate newspaper.

Career

After university Ghani worked as a researcher on current affairs documentary films for BBC One’s Panorama and Channel 4’s Dispatches^[4] strands. In 2008 he joined the British Army. After the Commissioning Course at Sandhurst, he joined the Intelligence Corps as a second lieutenant. He served in Brunei, Germany, and Afghanistan. In 2012 he left the Army with the rank of Captain.

Whig Party

In response to the 2014 European and local elections, Ghani re-founded the Whig Party.^[5] He will lead the party into the 2015 General Election;^[6] the party’s first since 1859.^[7] He is the party’s prospective parliamentary candidate for Vauxhall.^[8]

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